fanout

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fanout (countable and uncountable, plural fanouts)

(computing, electronics) The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.
The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected.

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Bipolar transistor-based logic (such as TTL ) does not have such a high fanout capacity. Source: Internet

Professional soundcards (audio interfaces) An M-Audio professional sound card with its fanout cables Professional soundcards are special soundcards optimized for low-latency multichannel sound recording and playback, including studio-grade fidelity. Source: Internet

Some DTL designs used two power-supplies with alternating layers of NPN and PNP transistors to increase the fanout. Source: Internet

Digital and Microprocessor Fundamentals: Theory and Application. 4th ed. Upper Saddler Reviver, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall The minimum practical fanout is about five. Source: Internet

In early devices, fanout improved to ten, and later variations reliably achieved twenty. Source: Internet

It limits the number of inputs that can be connected (the fanout ). Source: Internet

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